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N.C. Wyeth Portrait of a Young Artist 1936 oil on canvas 32 x 40 14 inches museum purchase 1963.1285 N.C.WyethPainter May 21December 31 RocklandMaine 2016 The Exclusive Media Partner of this exhibition is Maine Home Design Call 207-546-2927 M AY 2016 73 LEsprit de LEscalier DonnaMehalko En Valeur Show yourself in the best light. By Rhea Ct RoBBins A s a child when I heard mettre en valeur spoken I heard it as if it were a way of measuring ones ef- forts leaning towards excellence despite the dictionary definition of measuring quantity. Voices in my head stream words like mettre en valeur on a frequency like a personal ra- dio and it is not easy to tune the sounds off or out. Once set in motion the memory of the wordsspokenissomethingquitelikepri- vate poetry playing a melody with harmony as accompanimentmyself and the speaker in communication. As a child I made up my own lexicon of definitions by the atmosphere or tem- perament in which the words were uttered. Bearing daily witness to conversations be- tween native mother-tongue speakers I ar- rived at the essences of meanings rather than their actual intent. Bilingual speakers inside jokes or un- believable seriousness in discussions about the common causes of events presented ideas to me in my youth that live on in my adult head. Dead- ly delights of ver- biage taken in as a child with a childs version of the mean- ings of the words via the imagination. For me the sense of the words mettre en valeur embolden me to become the Lancelot or Guinevere of circumstance. To place oneself in a position of extreme or excellent valor. And nothing less. n Rhea Ct Robbins is the author of down the Plains.